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Sigma Photo recently held a grand opening for their new Burbank facility, where they’ll showcase their entire lens line, offer service and support and more. We spoke with Mark Amir-Hamzeh, the President of Sigma Corporation America at the launch event about what other services they offer at the facility, their plan for monthly events and […]

The new ZEISS Dimension family meets the highest demands for industrial applications. The lenses developed for use with a C-mount are designed for image sensors up to a size of 4/3” and offer exceptional image quality in a compact, lightweight and rugged aluminum housing. The ZEISS Dimension family consists of six focal lengths ranging from […]

The ZEISS Batis 2/40 CF bridges the gap in the ZEISS Batis family lineup OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 2018-09-27. With a 40 millimeter fixed focal length, the ZEISS Batis 2/40 CF (Close Focus) is the latest addition to the product family. This standard lens in the ZEISS Batis family features a quick autofocus and an extremely short minimum […]

Increasing the capabilities of the X1D-50c mirrorless medium format camera, Hasselblad adds three new lenses to its XCD lens family, including the XCD 1,9/80, with the largest aperture of a Hasselblad lens ever, the XCD 2,8/65 and the XCD 2,8/135 telephoto lens with X Converter 1,7. The three new lenses and one dedicated teleconverter expand […]

IB/E Optics recently introduced a new 60mm focal length into their Raptor lens family, available exclusively from Band Pro. Perfect for getting in super close to your subject, the 60mm has a wide range of uses that Band Pro’s Randy Wedick expanded upon during our interview at NAB 2018.

Band Pro recently announced their partnership with Whitepoint Optics, offering a series of full frame lenses with a great vintage look and tilt-swing functionality. We stopped to speak with Band Pro’s Randy Wedick for more at this year’s NAB 2018.

Zeiss has announced the latest lens in their Loxia family, the Loxia 2.4/25, specially developed for the mirrorless full-frame Sony E-mount cameras. A “compact wide-angle lens”, the Loxia 2.4/25 can also declick to turn it into a cinema lens.

Zeiss’ latest set of lenses, the Compact Prime CP.3 and CP.3 XD, have made a big splash since their release. We spoke with Zeiss’ Snehal Patel during our livestream from Band Pro’s One World Open House about how the CP.3s change both production and post-production, their maximization of metadata and more.

Cooke Optics has a long history of cinema lens manufacturing, so we made sure to catch up with Cooke’s Les Zellan to see how their latest lenses, the Cooke S7/i, T2.0 Full Frame Plus Primes, affect the well known “Cooke Look”.